Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)
Best matched with other inference tools.
Llamafactory has the larger GitHub footprint with 73.5K stars.
Airllm is currently growing faster at +6.4K stars this week.
Llamafactory has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 75/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.
Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.
| Signal | Airllm | Llamafactory |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence status | Needs recheck· 2026-08-31 11:03 UTC | Basic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTC |
| GitHub stars | 24.1K | 73.5K |
| Weekly growth | +6.4K | +2.3K |
| Health score | Watch57/100 | Healthy75/100 |
| Contributors | 10 | 288 |
| Commits per week | 2.5 | 5.2 |
| Open issues | 115 | 1.1K |
| Language | Jupyter Notebook | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | 2026-07-23 08:29 UTC | 2026-07-17 14:50 UTC |
| Last release | v3.0.1 | v0.9.5 |
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